TENNIS
Manas Dhamne loses ITF match in Monastir
Manas Dhamne was overwhelmed 6-2, 6-1 by Kenny De Schepper of France within the quarterfinals of the $15,000 ITF males’s tennis match in Monastir, Tunisia.
The 17-year-old Manas had received the title final week as a qualifier when he received eight singles matches in a row. Kenny stopped the 10-match profitable streak of Manas.
The outcomes:
$766,290 ATP, Delray Seashore, USA Doubles (quarterfinals): Mackenzie McDonald & Alex Michelsen (USA) bt Sriram Balaji & Miguel Reyes-Varela (Mex) 7-6(5), 6-4.
$200,000 Challenger, Manama, Bahrain Doubles (quarterfinals): Jeevan Nedunchezhiyan & Vijay Sundar Prashanth bt Charles Broom (GBR) & Aziz Dougaz(Tun) 6-6 (retired).
$15,000 ITF males, Monastir, Tunisia Singles (quarterfinals): Kenny De Schepper (Fra) bt Manas Dhamne 6-2, 6-1; Pre-quarterfinals: Manas bt Emilien Demanet (Bel) 4-6, 7-5, 6-1.
-Kamesh Srinivasan
GOLF
Yuvraj Sandhu wins Tata Metal PGTI Gamers Championship
Yuvraj Sandhu carded one other spherical of two-under 68 to win the season-opening Tata Metal PGTI Gamers Championship by two strokes on the Tollygunge Membership course right here on Friday.
Sandhu aggregated 20-under 260 for 4 rounds to beat Bangladesh’s Jamal Hossain, who scored 69 on the ultimate day.
This was Sandhu’s second title on the Tollygunge Membership, the place he had beforehand received in 2022. He bagged the winner’s purse of Rs 15 lakh.
Native Hero S.S P. Chawrasia completed tied-eighth at 269, following a 68.
The scores:
260-Yuvraj Sandhu (63, 61, 68, 68); 262-Jamal Hossain (65, 62, 66, 69); 266-Rahil Gangjee (63, 67, 66, 70); 267-Abhinav Lohan (70, 65, 65, 67); 268-Dhruv Sheoran (68, 68, 67, 63), Arjun Sharma (63, 67, 69, 69); Shamim Khan (67, 64, 67, 70).
-Group Sportstar
Lahiri derailed by late quadruple bogey in Liv Adelaide
Indian golfer Anirban Lahiri appeared on monitor for a powerful first spherical at LIV Golf Adelaide, however a late quadruple bogey marred his efficiency, leaving him with a 71 and a tie for twentieth place right here.
Lahiri was 5-under by 15 holes however a quadruple bogey on the tenth, his sixteenth gap of the day, derailed his spherical. He began from the thirteenth with six consecutive pars earlier than a burst of 5 birdies between the primary and ninth holes.
Nonetheless, the uncommon quadruple bogey on the par-5 tenth halted his momentum, and he closed with two pars to complete at 71.
Lahiri birdied the primary, fourth, sixth, seventh, and ninth holes on the Grange Golf Membership.
His crew Crushers was fifth as Bryson DeChambeau shot 68, and others have been Lahiri (71), Paul Casey (72) and David Howell III (72).
Sam Horsfield emerged with solo lead, due to the one bogey-free spherical of the day with 6-under 66. Horsfield has made only one bogey in his final 60 holes going again to final week’s LIV Golf Riyadh.
Trailing Horsfield are Carlos Ortiz and Joaquin Niemann, with 67 every.
Another good particular person scores got here from a number of main winners Dustin Johnson (68), DeChambeau (68) and Brooks Koepka (69), every mendacity inside the highest 10 of the leaderboard.
Group Torque took the crew lead at 8-under, due to a pair of 67s by captain Niemann and Ortiz. The opposite crew members are Mito Pereira (72), Sebastian Muñoz (74).
It was Reed who produced the day’s largest shot, making a hole-in-one on the Watering Gap lower than 20 minutes after the shotgun begin.
His shot got here with an 8-iron on the 151-yard par 3. Reed’s ace is the ninth in league historical past. Reed’s hole-in-one was one of many few highlights of his 1-over 73.
Niemann was tied for third in Adelaide a yr in the past, and in 2023, he received the Australian Open.
-PTI
Aditi on twentieth and Pranavi tied-32 on the Saudi Women golf
Aditi Ashok and Pranavi Urs, making their first look on the Women European Tour, acquired off to good begins at Saudi Women Worldwide right here on Friday.
Aditi, who opened her season on the LPGA, shot 3-under 69, whereas Pranavi, enjoying her first occasion of the brand new yr, carded 2-under 70.
Each had 4 birdies every, however Aditi, positioned tied twentieth, dropped only one bogey, whereas Pranavi, positioned tied thirty second, had two.
It was a humid morning on the Riyadh Golf Membership, nevertheless it dried up in the course of the spherical earlier than the rain began once more in direction of the top of the day.
The opposite two Indians within the subject have been means behind as Tvesa Malik shot 73 and was T-75, and Diksha Dagar, one of many solely two Indians to have tasted victory on the LET, shot 75 and was T-95.
Aditi, teeing off from the tenth, had an early bogey on the eleventh however then birdied 4 occasions – on the thirteenth, fifteenth, first and second.
Pranavi opened with a birdie on the tenth however dropped pictures on the eleventh and seventeenth. She then picked birdies on second, fourth and the fifth.
It was not an amazing begin for Tvesa, who had two birdies on the seventeenth and the ninth after teeing off from the tenth. Diksha had two birdies, one bogey and a quadruple bogey on the Par-3 eighth.
Within the Particular person competitors, Korea’s Somi Lee fired a gap spherical of 65 to guide the Particular person competitors by one stroke.
Germany’s Esther Henseleit and England’s Annabell Fuller ended the day sharing the second place after firing rounds of 66 (-6).
It was a bogey-free day for Olympic silver medallist Henseleit as she rolled in birdies on the third, fourth, fifth, eighth, twelfth and fifteenth holes.
Group Kyriacou is on the prime of the leaderboard in crew competitors.
They prepared the ground on the midway mark with a rating of 18-under-par. The quartet of Steph Kyriacou, Olivia Cowan, Sara Kouskova and Liz Younger didn’t drop a shot as a crew all day.
Group Somi Lee sits in second place on -17, with Group Chisato Iwai and Group Grant, each in third on 16-under-par.
-PTI